Find out who AI names instead of you.
You won the search results, the reviews, the market. Now your buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI first, and a competitor gets named instead of you. In 48 hours we run your category's real buying questions through the live engines and send you the dated answers, the competitors named in them, and the exact sources those answers cite. Fixed price, $490.
We measure and prescribe; your team runs the placements. Our own numbers are published on the same public ledger as our clients', misses included.
“best project management software”
your category's buying question
Named in the answer
- Competitor A
- Competitor B
- Competitor C
Not named
- Your brand? Ask the same question and check.
Illustrative example, not a live query. The dated version, sampled weekly on our own brand in ChatGPT today, is public. See the panel →
WHO THIS IS FORBrands that already won their market: real organic traffic, real reviews, a name buyers recognize. No organic presence yet? Then we are not your vendor.
AI answers lean heavily on authority that already exists, so a brand with real market strength has the most latent demand to convert and the shortest path to it. Building visibility from zero authority is a different, slower job than the one we do.
What the Sprint gives you in 48 hours
Ask ChatGPT yourself and it names a few for free, and ask again next week and the list moves: on our own tracked question, two samplings taken the same day agreed on only two of six names. The Sprint is the source map that goes further: it names who wins your category's AI answers and from which sources, checks whether the AI crawlers can reach you, and sizes what the gap is worth, then stops, with every finding shipped under a warranty that keeps its own dated raw capture. Your team executes the placements later, with our briefs. A demonstrated citation flip does not exist yet, ours included, and the method is under live public test.
The real answers, dated
The live AI answers to a panel of your buyers' questions, captured and dated across ChatGPT and Perplexity: who gets named instead of you, from the same questions you can ask on your own phone.
Which sources the answer cites
The specific third-party sources each answer draws on for your tracked questions, named. Presence in them is the evidence-supported lever; getting into them is the build the Sprint points to, not part of the Sprint.
Crawler access and Bing rank
How your server responds to each AI crawler user-agent, with the HTTP status in writing, plus your Bing retrieval rank per query. This is a user-agent access check you can reproduce, not proof the real crawler reached you from its own IP.
The gap sized, and where to start
What the exposed demand is worth in your own funnel numbers, with every assumption shown, and a prioritized direction for what to fix first. The Sprint names and sizes the gap, then stops.
The same four moves run on every engagement, which is why the scope, timeline, and price hold. How the method works.
Domain Rating 80. Hundreds of thousands of backlinks. Named in none of the seven answers.
Two established US software companies, Domain Rating 80 and above, hundreds of thousands of backlinks between them. We asked Perplexity and Bing Copilot the buying questions their categories live on, over two days. Across seven AI answers, neither brand was named once. Search authority did not carry over. Both were picked because they were already absent from these answers, so the sample shows the gap is real, not how common it is across strong brands generally. Read the field sample →
This is the measurement the Sprint delivers on your category, in 48 hours: the dated answers, who is named in them, and which sources those answers cite. We run the same protocol on ourselves and publish the result on a ledger anyone can audit, currently 0 of 11 tracked questions naming us. A vendor that publishes its own misses is telling you what the number actually does. See the AI Citation Index →
Nicolò Brignoni
Founder, Deep Ocean. Runs the method on his own site first, in public, on a dated ledger.
I spent years ranking brands on Google. That channel is maturing, and a second one now sits next to it: which brand the AI answer names. I run Deep Ocean in the open: my own site gets exactly what clients get, measured on a dated public ledger, published whether the number flatters me or not. My own site is the first test case: until its tracked number moves, the method is unproven, and the public ledger shows that.
Follow the work on LinkedIn →Two ways in.
Where an engagement goes.
The Scan and the Sprint are available today. The Watch and the Foundation are designed and priced but not yet orderable: the Foundation waits on a legal entity and contract, and both publish their order path here the day that is done. Care, the fuller recurring engagement that would add ongoing work on top of the meter, stays published as a later continuation and is not sold today. We would rather show you the whole ladder than pretend it ends at $490. Agency partners: white-label delivery runs at the retail price, and wholesale pricing publishes together with the wholesale terms before any agency order is accepted. See the partner page.
Check who the AI names in your category.
The Sprint runs the full panel in 48 hours, dated and sourced. Want to see the machine layer first? The free scan returns in 30 seconds, no signup and no call.
Fixed price, 48 hours, and the raw dated records are yours to keep.